Innovative Social Sciences Teaching and Learning: Facilitating Students' Personal Growth and Career Success

The book offers novel insights into how students can develop a personal growth mindset during their degree programs, equipping them with skills and mindsets to benefit them throughout their careers in ever-changing jobs. It provides a framework for higher education teachers to align learning objectives and assessments with crucial transferable skill development and foster a mindset for personal growth.

Format: Hardback
Length: 195 pages
Publication date: 13 January 2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book provides fresh perspectives on how students can cultivate a personal growth mindset during their academic journeys, enabling them to perceive new challenges as opportunities for personal development, reflect on acquired knowledge and experiences, and enhance their abilities to critically assess and evaluate information. Drawing upon learning theories rooted in cognitive and social psychology and spanning over 12 years of integrating the 'personal growth mindset into course design, the book presents a novel framework that empowers higher education instructors to effectively align learning objectives and assessments with the acquisition of transferable skills, fostering a mindset for personal growth among students that emphasizes continuous improvement and reflection on feedback. The primary objective is to empower academics to create courses and degree programs that are tailored to meet the specific needs of their students, equipping social science students with the skills and mindsets that will serve them well throughout their careers in an ever-evolving and rapidly changing job market. This book will resonate with individuals who are interested in understanding how individuals learn in educational settings and in the broader workplace.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031414510
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023